{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/asv/deuteronomy/24","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T08:25:30.424Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ASV","book":"Deuteronomy","bookSlug":"deuteronomy","chapter":24,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":23,"nextChapter":25,"totalChapters":34,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife ."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Jehovah: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man's life to pledge."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Remember what Jehovah thy God did unto Miriam, by the way as ye came forth out of Egypt."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"When thou dost lend thy neighbor any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"thou shalt surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before Jehovah thy God."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy sojourners that are in thy land within thy gates:"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"in his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it be sin unto thee."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Thou shalt not wrest the justice due to the sojourner, or to the fatherless, nor take the widow's raiment to pledge;"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"but thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and Jehovah thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"When thou beatest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it after thee: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing."}],"citation":{"inline":"Deuteronomy 24 (ASV)","markdown":"[Deuteronomy 24](https://primebible.com/asv/deuteronomy/24)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ASV. https://primebible.com/asv/deuteronomy/24 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}